[Blog Post] Oracle's latest update to the Oracle EM12c Plugin for Microsoft SQL signals a shift in a
Most long time Oracle Enterprise Manager customers are aware that Oracle provides a number of Oracle EM Plugins for non-Oracle databases including Microsoft SQL, Sybase ASE, and IBM DB2. Until fairly recently these were fairly minimalistic in nature. For the most part, they allowed Oracle to "check the box" for Oracle App users who required high-level Oracle EM based visibility into non-Oracle databases backing workloads like Siebel, PeopleSoft, JDE, etc were running on.
Earlier this year Oracle released a fairly big upgrade to the Microsoft SQL plugin - the first sign they were getting serious about enhancing Oracle EM's ability to provide comprehensive monitoring for non-Oracle environments. This week, roughly just 5 months after the first major update of the Microsoft SQL plugin, Oracle has released new versions of the